{"id":4252,"date":"2021-09-22T04:46:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T23:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barapind.com\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2021-09-22T04:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T23:21:19","slug":"dhuleta-native-rubi-sahota-become-mp-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/dhuleta-native-rubi-sahota-become-mp-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Village Dhuleta native Rubi Sahota become MP in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rubi Sahota was born in Toronto\u00a0after her parents arrived in Canada in the late 1970s,<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0and was raised in Brampton. Her father previously was the Chairman of the Ontario Sikhs and Gurdwara Council.<sup id=\"cite_ref-7\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Sahota attended the Brampton&#8217;s\u00a0Central Peel Secondary School\u00a0from 1993 to 1998, and then graduated with an Honours bachelor&#8217;s degree in Political Science and Peace Studies at\u00a0McMaster University\u00a0in 2003.<sup id=\"cite_ref-8\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0She then attended\u00a0Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, graduating in 2007. <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">From 2007 to 2012, Sahota practiced law in\u00a0<\/span>Cleveland<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">,\u00a0<\/span>Ohio<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">, focusing on commercial litigation.<\/span> \u00a0Sahota sought the Liberal nomination for the newly created riding of Brampton North, winning it on March 1, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The general election campaign involved some controversy, as Sahota&#8217;s campaign criticized leaflets circulated by her opponent,\u00a0Conservative\u00a0incumbent\u00a0Parm Gill, which it was alleged were deliberately aimed at confusing Sahota with previous Liberal Party MP\u00a0Ruby Dhalla. Sahota defeated Gill to win the election.<\/p>\n<p>Once elected, Sahota was appointed to both the\u00a0Standing Committee on the Status of Women\u00a0and the\u00a0Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. She was subsequently named to the\u00a0Special Committee on Electoral Reform. On February 1, 2017, she was elected Chair of the Federal Liberal Ontario Caucus by her peers. As Caucus Chair, she presides over meetings, lead discussion and act as an important link between Ontario Liberal MPs and the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office and Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>She is married to podiatrist Dr. Tejinder Sahota and has a son named Nihal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruby_Sahota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4254 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ruby3___Gallery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ruby3___Gallery.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ruby3___Gallery-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Thanks : https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruby_Sahota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubi Sahota was born in Toronto\u00a0after her parents arrived in Canada in the late 1970s,\u00a0and was raised in Brampton. Her father previously was the Chairman of the Ontario Sikhs and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barapind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}